Someone kicked him, lightly, along the ribs.
Naruto snorted, sat up, and looked around. "Huh? What?"
"That's what we wanted to know," said Kakashi.
"Why's everyone here? Why am I sleeping on a stone bench?" Naruto blinked as he realized that Sasuke and Sakura were staring at something. Naturally, he tracked where their vision was directed.
Roughly twenty five feet square as far as depth/width/length was concerned. About one hundred twenty feet as far as height was concerned, a white glistening crystal spire stuck up out of the ground as if someone had just jammed it there.
"It grew," said Naruto.
"'Grew'?" asked Kakashi.
"I had summoned one of the dragons in the book," said Naruto. "This one was into fuuinjutsu. Didn't like the house. Handed me this crystal. Said throw as much chakra as I could into it. At first it didn't do anything. Then I got real frustrated and pushed and - everything went dark."
"Ah," said Kakashi. "So that's what happened."
"This makes sense exactly HOW?" asked Sakura, pointing at the huge building.
"Well, after today's D-Rank mission, we'll have to take a little look at it. As it is, we're already late."
"We have a D-Rank mission to explore the strange crystal tower that just appeared on Naruto's property?" asked Kakashi.
"The neighbors are curious," said Iruka. "Go figure."
"Naruto!" exclaimed Sakura, ready to berate her team-mate.
"Sakura," quietly said Sasuke. "Is this worse than cleaning the Inuzuka kennels? Litter collection along the river? Sewage pipe unblockage? Onion topping?"
Sakura blinked, turned to the Hokage, and bowed. "I withdraw my objection to the mission."
"Well, this looks like it'll be an easy mission after all," said Sakura. "Bare walls and ceiling and floors."
"Another empty room," said Sasuke. "You'll need doors too."
"The crystals of the interior rooms are mostly opaque, the outer walls are opaque from the outside but transparent from the inside." Kakashi rapped against a wall. "Material is some hard mineral material - not familiar with it."
Sakura went into a room and called out to the group as they went off exploring other rooms. "Found a table. With a small bottle of something marked 'Drink Me'?" She picked it up, looking at the bottle in more detail. "Anyone have a clue what that means? Guys?"
Turning back to the doorway she noticed it was missing. She was now, for all intents and purposes, in a perfectly cube-shaped 10' room with a table and a bottle labelled 'Drink Me' in her hands.
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